Rural fire protection plans discussed by Henry committee
Henry and White counties and area farmers met to map rural fire protection. A proposed 60 to 65 gallon tanker and a two stage pump were discussed as key equipment, with a plan for a country fire truck and tank supply. Members include Elmer Lord and Lloyd Murphy, with water supply and insurance coverage topics also on the agenda.
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Uck
Mog
Damm Group
Henry
Henry Fire Aleat
Isyle
Elmer
Area 4
Whiten
Saraewell, Magnolia
Sen
Psayer
Ike Henry
La¢o
LaPrairie Company
John Lindgren Dies Tuesday Last Rites Friday
John Lindgren longtime Henry resident dies Tuesday at St. Margarets hospital after extended illness. Funeral services set for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Green Funeral Home with prior visiting hours after 2 p.m. Thursday. Survived by son Francis, wife Leong, and grandsons Ralph and Robert of Evanston. wife and two daughters Anna and Virginia predeceased him.
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John Lindgren
Henry
St. Margaret's Hospital
Green Funeral Home
Funers Home
Lindgren
Anna
Virginia
Francis
Leong
Ralph
Robert
Evanston
Magnolia-Swaney High School Registration Dates
Charles Hampstead, Magnolia-Swaney High principal, announced all students meet at 9 a.m. Monday August 27 in the school gym for registration. One half day on August 30 from 8:40 a.m. to noon. No full day on August 31. No bus service on August 27. buses resume August 30. Magnolia-Swaney Board of Education approved plan Monday night with members Kinney Rehn Boyle Glenn DeBolt Pletsch Shearer. Katherine Loesch is district treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hampstead
Magnolia-Swaney High
Hag
Hempstead
Magnolia-Swaney Board of Education
Howard Kinney
Ernest Rehn
Francis Boyle
Dawson Glenn
Harry DeBolt
Lewig Pletsch
Gerald Shearer
Katherine Loesch
Infant Son of Robert Steeles Dies
Infant son of Robert and Florence Mattern Steels dies after premature birth at St. Francis hospital Peoria. Weighing under four pounds he lived a few hours before passing away the same day. Brief funeral services were held at Brennan funeral home with graveside rites at Calvary cemetery conducted by Rev. Laurence Schumacher. Survived by parents a brother Pat and grandparents Mrs Renn Steele and Mr and Mrs George Mattern.
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Thomas Bradley
Robert
Florence Mattern Steal
St. Francis Hospital
Peoria
Brennan Funeral Home
Calvary Cemetery
Laurence Schumacher
St. Mary's Church
Pat
Renn Steele
George Mattern
Wenona Man Seeks NY TV Appearance Controversy
Wenona Index reports a local man plans to send his wife to New York for an appearance on What's My Line He claims viewers would not guess her occupation as a slave driver raising local talk and controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenona
Wenona Mann
New York
Henry City Council backs Channel 8 preservation dispute
In a special meeting the Henry City Council approved a resolution protesting moving Channel 8 from Peoria to Rock Island and urged FCC action. The measure cites channel 8 as the area's only grade A VHF public service and notes Peoria already has two UHF channels 19 and 43.
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Henry
Peoria
Central Illinois Trading Area
Rock Island
VHF Public Service
Wirl Television Company of
Hen- Ty
Federal Communications Commission
Wirl Television Company
Eisenhower
Federal Communications Commssion
Paul H. Douglas
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Harold H
Drowning takes Leonard Appel in Keokuk outing
Leonard Appel 20 of Sparland drowned Sunday in the Mississippi near the Hamilton Keokuk bridge. Funeral set for Thursday at Immaculate Conception Church Lacon with Rosary tonight. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs Tony Appel and four siblings.
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Lenz Funeral Home
Dolores Peitzmeter
Keokuk
Hamilton-Keokuk Bridge
Governor Marland Delivers Dedication Speech in Lacon
Governor William C. Marland of West Virginia makes a debut in Lacon with a dedicatory address at the street lights water project ceremony. Gerry D. Scott hosts a night of civic leaders, business men, and remarks highlighting cooperation, local progress, and city finances. A parade from Fifth Street to Court House Square preceded the ceremony with bands and officials participating.
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Gerry D. Scott
William C. Marland
West Virginia
Bill
Rey
William’ W
BIW
Breen
Tcommittéeg
Mr. Scott
nesa_men
Ofal
Orchia
Savis Ilyas
Faety Street
Fruiton
Val Wenk
Marland
Allen
Scott
Lacan-Sparland
Elizabeth
George Hacker
John Allen
Lacon
John Alien
Stratton
William Stratton
Illinois
Melvin Haig Installs New Officers of Henry Legion
Melvin Haig of Magnolia installed the Henry post 323 officers with Pat Snare of Tremont and Carl W Johnson of Magnolia assisting. Johnson was installed as commander with Haig appointing him adjutant for the 16th district. John J. Wosik was installed as Henry post commander. Additional officers named include Tom Clark as senior vice commander Marny Coloanna Huron tte as junior vice commander and Grant Soll as service officer. The post plans a float for the Old Settlers celebration August 23 at Lacon and seeks a site for a new Legion home following a recent sale of the current building to Virgil Bogner.
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Melvin Hig
Magnolia
16Th District Legion
Henry American Legion
Pat Snare
Tremont
John Wosth
Henry
Blaig
Charles Hoffman
Carl W. Johnson
Tony Bedamo
Quincy
Department of Thinors
Qickes Studie
Melvin Haig
American Legion
The
Legion Hall
Haig
Carl W Johnson
Sth
Tazewell
Stark County
Johnson
John J. Wosik
Henry Post
Tom Clark
Mar Ny Coloanna Huron
Istedt
John B. Steele
Grant Soll
Gordon Hart
A. E. Ertle
Edwin Barry
Legion
Old Settlers
Lacon
Poat
Henry Township
Smith
Leo Smith
Melvin Ray Schultz
Bulding Committee
Virgil Bogner
Supreme Dairy to Open Prairie Farms Plant by Sept 1
Supreme Dairy Products of Oglesby plans to have the Prairie Farms Creamery in this area ready for manufacturing by September 1, with animal food as the initial main product and human food later. About six workers to start, rising to 10 to 12 as operations expand.
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Supreme Dairy Products Company of
Oglesby
Prairie Farms Creamery
Dueyson
Louisy-Alleman
Supreme Company
Henry
Otter Supreme
Supreme
Prairie Farms
Dueysen
Alleman
Bloomington
Tiskilwo
Tonica
Ogleaby
Washburn
Council Forms Agricultural Extension Governance in Marshall Putnam
Deacon Louis B. Howard of the University of Illinois appoints an Agricultural Extension Council to govern the extension service in Marshall Putnam counties. The council includes Robert Hahn, Leland Anderson, Bert McKee, Ernest Wright, Philip Edgerly, Robert Monter, Viron Gustafson, Charles Read, Wemmell Morine, Ralph Wier, and Clinton Lundgren. The move follows a pact separating extension service from the Farm Bureau, with funding from the university state and federal sources supporting salaries, office needs, and the 4-H program.
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Deon Louis B. Howard
The
University of
Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau
Agricultural Extension Service
University
Ra Rt
Marshall-Putnam Counties
Howard Tolley
Local
Farm Bureau Board
Dean Howard
Robert Hahn
Minonk
Leland Anderson
Granville
Bert McKee
Varna
Ernest Wright
Henry
Philip Edgerly
Robert Monter
Spain
Viron Gustafson
Saratoga
Charles W Read
Putnam
Wemiell Morine
Hennepin
Ralph Wier
Lacan
Clinton Lundgren
Magnolia
Ezra Taft Benson
Extension Service
Farm Bureau
Woul
Court House
Lacon
Universalty of
Maola
Farm Adviser
Dr Tochalauski Plans New Ranch Home Purchase
Dr A F Tochalauski plans to build a ranch style home on land bought from William Koehler near Henry Senachwine High School. He lists his present home at 1021 Warren Street for sale and has acquired a 1 1/2 acre tract from Koehler for the project.
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A. F. Tochalauski
Willlam Koehler
Henry-Senachwine High School
Tochalauski
Warren Street
Koehler
Katherine Peterman 85 Laid to Rest in Henry
Funeral services for Katherine Peterman 85 lifelong Henry resident who died August 8 1956 at home held at St Marys church with Rev Laurence Schumacher officiating. Burial at Calvary. Survived by two brothers and a sister with many distant relatives attending from Joliet Lockport Peoria Lacon Varna Hennepin Chillicothe and Lostant.
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Kathering Peterman
Hove
St. ‘Mary's
Laurence Schumacher
Vfrennan
O'Slock
Wasn
Calvary
Cornete Mee
Aely
Ryee
Bernard Berdahtz
Julius‘ Hoxcheldt
Lodis Hofer
Joe Stade
Peter Neuhalsen
Katherine Peterman
Adam
Regina Lippert Peterman
Henry
Frank Woods Familly
Swan Lake Club
St. Mary’s Church
William
Ida
Barbara
John
Lawrence
Joseph
Frank
George
Lawrence Barto
Joliet
William Hartney
George Barto
Lockport
Herman Welde
Miss Hobler
Peoria
John Welde
Lostant
George Lippert
Lacon
Lynn Broaddus
Varna
Royal Clemens
Hennepin
Harry Meade
E. W Neuhalfen
Chillicothe
Public sale notices for farms and livestock across Wisconsin towns
Real estate and auction listings announce sales for Frances Biddulph's estate five miles south of Tis Kilwa and Louis Ely Farm near Whitefield Corners with executors and auctioneers named. Additional events include a Marshall Putnam Farmers Union consignments sale, and a dairy cow sale near Washburn with listed owners and clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Biddulph
Tis- Kilwa
L. H. Baker
George S. Skinner
Louis Ely
Whitefield Corners
Washburn
Carl Golden
Leonard Stonier
Art Garber
Whitefield Road Letting Scheduled This Month
The contract calls for 2 1/2 miles of blacktop highway from Red Town Corners south to the Kaifer Russell farm on Yankee Street Road in the county. The route already blacktopped to the Riddell farm on Route 17 and continues toward the Marshall Peoria county line. Plans aim to complete a Princeton Cailli cothe corridor with sections from Lone Tree onward, with efforts to finish the remaining Lone Tree to Whitefield corners segment next year.
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Yankee Street
Red Town Corners
William Kaifer-Russell
Kaifer
Riddell
Marshall- Peoria
Peoria
Cradle Beach
Princeton
Caillicothe
Tiskilwa
Lone Tree
Whitefield Corners
Roa & Cs
Notable family thanks for kindness during sister's illness and passing
The Peterman Family expresses deep gratitude for the many acts of kindness shown during the illness and death of their beloved sister. May God bless you all.
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Peterman
Henry Bakery Expands Production Under Magee
The Henry Bakery operated by Charles Magee expands production for its own retail trade. It builds sales routes and delivers daily items like bread cakes and cookies to stores in nearby towns. Ongoing interior improvements include new walls and ceiling while staff includes Nedra Moore Imogene Moore Louis Glatz Elsie Schlosser and Jean Jason.
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Henry
Charles Magee
Magee
Annual Steuben J. G. Picnic Held at Shore Acres
The Steuben J. G. held its annual picnic Sunday at Shore Acres in Chili cothe. Seventeen members attended with 39 total including family. Games were enjoyed and the day’s plans were deemed a success.
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Steuben
J. G
Shore Acres
Chillicothe
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